First production of R3volution season
AUKLAND PARK - UJ Arts and Culture’s R?VOlUTION MMXIV launches with “What The Water Gave Me” At the Con Cowan Theatre on 9 April.
The University of Johannesburg’s department of Arts and Culture kicks off its season of R3VOlUTION 2014 with a contoversial play out of Cape Town.
The play, What The Water Gave Me, is an elemental theatrical exploration of the deep connections between Indonesian and Cape Malay culture, cadence and being.
Powerful and authentically South African, the play excavates stories buried in the darkness of Cape Town’s
history.
“R3VOlUTION 2014 is a meditation on the ideas and ideals of freedom from a global perspective rather just a straightforward celebration of 20 years of freedom in South Africa,” producer Grace Meadows explains.
“Given UJ’s ‘Rethink. Reinvent.’ positioning, What The Water Gave Me encapsulates the core of the conversation we hope to catalyse with the annual integrated UJ Arts and Culture programme
for 2014.”
Flowing from lush stories of ancient magics to gritty tales of urban terror, What The Water Gave Me traces the stories of four characters: a hip-hop head from Heideveld on the Cape Flats who channels poetry from Sirius, an urban taxi time traveller whose body is the city she lives in, a child who is caught by a monster paedophile, and a storyteller who weaves their worlds together.
Director Jade Bowers says she is particularly excited about interpreting the unconventional nature of the work for the Con Cowan Theatre space and to be working with UJ.
What The Water Gave Me is performed by Cherae Halley with music by Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu.
The production runs at the UJ Con Cowan Theatre on the Bunting Road Campus from 9-12 April.
Details: www.uj.ac.za/arts
